And the most absurd of things. . .
She pretends to broker bits of the Earth, as if she could receive money for trading the planet from stranger to stranger.
And he pretends to know truth or beauty or some other such absurdity by putting colors on a canvas.
And she pretends to fix the minds of others by training them to stop storytelling beneath a canopy of scalp electrodes.
Breathe, she tells them, as if they didn’t know it autonomically.
Richness.
A sauciness I find so attractive!